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My Stroke Of Insight
''My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientistʼs Personal Journey'' (2008) is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning book written by Jill Bolte Taylor, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist. In it, she tells of her experience in 1996 of having a stroke in her left hemisphere and how the human brain creates our perception of reality and includes tips about how Dr. Taylor rebuilt her own brain from the inside out. It is available in 29 languages. Critical reception Desmond O'Neill, M.D. writes in the ''New England Journal of Medicine'', that although the account is gripping and insightful, that it is "burdened by an interpretation of stroke through the narrow lens of hemispheric function." He also argues that the advice Taylor gives to stroke patients might not be valuable for all stroke patients. Bert Keizer, a Dutch geriatrician,https://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/keizer_w09.html Keizer, Bert, "Step to the Right", Threepenny Review, Winter 2009. reviewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor (; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Taylor began to study severe mental illnesses because of her brother's psychosis. In the early 1990s, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in mapping the brain to determine how cells communicate with each other. On December 10, 1996, Taylor had a massive stroke. Her personal experience with a stroke and her subsequent eight-year recovery influenced her work as a scientist and speaker. It is the subject of her 2006 book ''My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey''. She gave the first TED talk that went viral on the Internet,, after which her book became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. In May 2008 she was named to ''Time Magazine's'' 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. " My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
